A weapons company, sometimes called a manoeuvre support company is a company-sized military unit attached to an infantrybattalion to support the rifle companies of the battalion. It usually possesses some combination of machine-guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, reconnaissance vehicles, and sometimes assault pioneers (infantrymen specially trained in the assault role).

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The infantry regiment had a headquarters and service company, a Weapons Company, and three battalions. The battalions each had a headquarters (HQ)
company, a Weapons Company – discussed below – and three rifle companies.
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The company now included three rifle platoons and a weapons platoon. Each
platoon had about forty men, normally commanded by a second lieutenant.
Riflemen were armed with either the M1 rifle or the Browning Automatic Rifle (
BAR).

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